W800i erased my memory stick!

[barophobia]

Hello,

Yesterday I plugged in the provided USB cable to transfer some pictures from the camera to my PC. After navigating to the DCIM directory and selecting the photos I wanted to copy I pressed Ctrl+C and then Ctrl+V. During the paste the computer reported that it couldn't read from the source anymore.

I went back to the DCIM directory and pressed F5. Everything disappeared. At first I wasn't concerned because this had happened before without any real loss. I unplugged the phone and then checked the file manager on the phone. Again, zero pictures. Last time this happened all I had to do was reset the phone and everything went back to normal. But this time after resetting the phone the card wasn't even recognized! So I took the card out and put it back in. This time the card was recognized but there were no pictures on it.

Does anyone know what happened and how I can prevent this?

I think I have the latest firmware: R1N035.


Thank you for your help.

[Ragnar]

Dude that sucks! I thought I wiped out all my music today, but it was a false alarm:eek:

I posted this question in another thread.....I think we need card readers!

[deecrummey]

Use the filemanager software provided with the phone which will put the pictures on the phone memory then you can transfer them to the memory stick, which is a bit of a pain but will solve the problem.

[DEViANT]

You might be able to recover your photos if you put the card into a card reader (or something which can natively read the card in Windows XP as a mass storage device). Then do a disk check on it, and select automatically fix file system errors. It should repair the card, your files will probably appear as *.CHK files in a folder called FILE0000 or something like that (it will be hidden). The files are recoverable usually, I'd say in 90% of cases, just don't write anything else to the card in the meantime. This goes to show, even if flash RAM is called non-volatile memory it really isn't... I had the memory chips fail in a branded Sandisk Micro Cruzer USB drive, which was costly because it lost the only encrypted database of laptops in my inventory. Let me know how it goes. I can show you some other software which may be able to recover your photos if Windows can't.